ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,458, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Secure delivery of assets to a trusted device" was invented by Dallas B. De Atley (San Francisco), Bailey E. Basile (Cupertino, Calif.), Venkat V. Memula (Livermore, Calif.), Thomas P. Mensch (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Robert M. Marini (San Francisco), David P. Remahl (Woodside, Calif.), Kelsey J. Skillman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Edward E. Thomas (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a system and method for secure delivery of assets to a trusted device. Multiple levels of verification are implemented to enable compone...